Mangan, February 13: The departments of Labour and Rural Management and Development Department jointly conducted a seminar cum awareness programme on Labour Laws at Community Centre Hall which was chaired by Mr. Tsering Wongdi Lepcha, Adhakshya/North as the Chief Guest.
The Chief Guest in his speech stated that the labour being the prime factor of the development of the state, they should be respected at all levels. Further, he urged the panchayats, power developers and contractors to abide by the labour laws and asked the power developers to provide all the facilities to the workers as per the provisions of the Laws.
DC (North), speaking on the current labour influx rate, suggested for a duplicate copy of the registration form of workers to be made available to the respective area panchayats so as to keep a preventive measure against any labourers incase they cause any social disturbances. Mr. Kazi appealed to the panchayats and public that they should immediately approach the concern authority in case of any problem relating to the labour in their respective area.
Mr. P. W. Rinzing, Addl. Secretary to Labour department briefing about various provisions of the law, informed that apart from providing various administrative service support and industrial training to the workers the department is also imparting free short course training in various field under capacity building scheme of labour department to unemployed educated youth of Sikkim at Rangpo ITI. Thus, he called upon the eligible youth of the district to avail of the opportunity.
Earlier, during its technical session, Sr. Deputy Labour Commissioner, Mr. C.Gyatso and Mr. Bhisan Rai briefly explained about all the provision of the labour laws that have been enforced in the state since 1976.
The welcome address was delivered by DDO (North), Mr. Tsewang Gyatso while the vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. K.R. Limboo, Assistant Labour Commissioner, North.